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JANET JACKSON issued a statement Wednesday morning denying that she has an eighteen-year-old daughter. On Friday, her former brother-in-law Young DeBarge appeared on New York hip-hop station Hot 97 stating that Jackson and her then-husband (DeBarge's brother) James have a daughter named Renee who he alleges has been living with Jackson's older sister Rebbie. Young DeBarge is currently promoting his upcoming album . . . The three-disc DVD The WHO: "Tommy" and "Quadrophenia" Live with Special Guests, featuring ELTON JOHN, BILLY IDOL, PHIL COLLINS, PATTO LABELLE and STEVE WINWOOD, hits stores November 8th. The set features the veteran rockers performing their classic albums at Los Angeles' Universal Amphitheater in 1989 and on stops from their 1996-1997 tour . . . HOT HOT HEAT will perform at this year's Casby Music Awards, at which Canadian fans for their favorite native artists, on November 23rd at Toronto's Kool Haus venue. METRIC, SLOAN and THEORY OF A DEADMAN are also slated to perform, with Canadian comedian Tom Green as host . . . SHOOTER JENNINGS will be the subject of the new CMT pilot Shooter, premiering October 29th. The show will follow country legend WAYLON JENNINGS' son as he hits the road in support of his March release, Put the "O" Back in Country . . . New Orleans acid jazz band GALACTIC will return to their hometown for a special tenth anniversary gala on December 31st at New Orleans landmark music venue Tipitina's. The celebration -- originally slated for September, before the devastation of Hurricane Katrina -- will benefit the Tipitina's Foundation, a charity dedicated to preserving the culture of the city . . . R&B singer AKON will release an expanded edition of his 2003 breakthrough, Trouble, on November 22nd. The new version features a second CD of collaborations, including "Miss Melody" with hip-hop violinist MIRI BEN-ARI and "Find Us" with the BEATNUTS . . . MARY TRAVERS of PETER, PAUL AND MARY will join the group on December 9th at New York's Carnegie Hall when they perform their annual holiday concert. Travers, who learned in December 2004 that an earlier case of leukemia had returned, received a bone marrow transplant last April and recent tests show no leukemia cells . . .
BETH ORTON will release her as-yet-untitled new album in February. The project, produced by JIM O'ROURKE (WILCO's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot), is the British singer-songwriter's first studio album since 2002's Daybreaker . . . QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE will hit the stage at New Orleans' Riverview Park on Saturday and Memphis' AutoZone Park on Sunday, at this weekend's two-day Voodoo Music Experience. The festival will also feature performances, at either venue, by NINE INCH NAILS, SECRET MACHINES, the NEW YORK DOLLS, the DECEMBERISTS and DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 . . . TIM McGRAW, RASCAL FLATTS and KEITH URBAN will join MARIAH CAREY, KENNY CHESNEY, ROB THOMAS and the ROLLING STONES (via satellite from Utah) on the performance lineup for the thirty-third annual American Music Awards, broadcasting live from Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium November 22nd on ABC . . . BO BICE will release his debut album, originally due November 29th, on December 13th. The CD will feature BON JOVI's RICHIE SAMBORA, former EVANESCENCE guitarist BEN MOODY and NICKELBACK frontman CHAD KROEGER . . . Songs by DEPECHE MODE, RASCAL FLATTS, LIFEHOUSE, BRENDAN BENSON, JOSH KELLEY and BREAKING BENJAMIN will be featured on the soundtrack for the WB series Smallville, in stores November 8th . . . SLEATER-KINNEY guitarist CARRIE BROWNSTEIN was taken to the emergency room twice for inexplicable severe allergic reactions and is undergoing tests. The trio has postponed their European tour, which was set to begin November 8th in Brighton, England . . . POISON guitarist C.C. DEVILLE was sentenced to eighty days in jail, given five years probation, ordered to pay a $1000 fine and had his driver's license revoked for one year after he pled no contest Monday to driving under the influence in August . . .
Sirius Satellite Radio will launch the E Street Radio channel, the first ever 24/7 music channel devoted entirely to the music of BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, on November 1st. Two weeks later, the thirtieth anniversary box set of Born to Run hits stores . . . The RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, MISSY ELLIOTT, OZZY OSBOURNE, XZIBIT and SNOOP DOGG are all set to appear at the third annual Spike TV Video Games Awards, set for November 18th at Los Angeles' Gibson Amphitheater. The show, hosted by actor Samuel L. Jackson, will premiere on the network on December 10th . . . PAUL McCARTNEY has launched the public charity the Music Lives Foundation, aimed at raising awareness and funds for music education programs in schools, in partnership with Fidelity Investments . . . LUDACRIS will release Ludacris Presents ... Disturbing tha Peace, the second Disturbing tha Peace Records compilation album, on December 13th. The collection will include guest appearances by JAMIE FOXX, STAT QUO, TRICK DADDY, FIELD MOB, BOBBY VALENTINO, REDMAN, GHOSTFACE KILLAH and UNCLE LUKE . . . BARENAKED LADIES will release Barenaked on a Stick, a flash memory drive (compatible with PC/Mac) containing songs, videos and other exclusive content by the Canadian rockers, on November 22nd. The drive will be available exclusively through Amazon and Werkshop, Nettwork Music Group's online merchandise store, as well as the band's tour venues. The Ladies' tour kicks off November 21st in Montreal, and wraps on December 21st in Winnipeg . . . Eagle Rock Entertainment will release the DVD, CHER: Extravaganza -- Live at the Mirage, featuring the pop diva's 1992 performance at the Las Vegas hotel, on November 15th . . . BUSH will release their first ever DVD and live CD set, Zen x Four, featuring all of the British rockers' hit videos, along with a CD of previously unreleased live and acoustic material, on November 15th . . .
MARY J. BLIGE has recorded a duet with BONO on a cover of U2's "One" to be featured on her retrospective album, Reminisce, which has now been pushed back to December 6th. Blige is slated to release her next studio album, The Breakthrough, this spring . . . PAUL SIMON and JON BON JOVI have been added to the performance lineup for the thirty-ninth annual CMA awards, taking place for the first time in New York, at Madison Square Garden on November 15th. Simon will perform a song with WILLIE NELSON, while Bon Jovi and SUGARLAND singer JENNIFER NETTLES come together again for "Who Says You Can't Go Home," which they performed recently on CMT Crossroads . . . EMINEM was given a break by a Detroit judge on Monday when most of a lawsuit filed by his aunt and uncle, who claim the rapper unfairly evicted them from a home he had built for them, was tossed out. The rapper's attorneys insist that there was no contract between the couple and Eminem . . . BEN LEE, KEITH URBAN, JET and the GO-BETWEENS were among the winners at Sunday's Australian Recording Industry Association awards . . . NELLIE McKAY will be performing at New York's Makor Cafe and Mercury Lounge on December 5th and 6th, respectively, in support of her new album, Pretty Little Head, due December 27th . . . On November 1st Rhino Records will release the three-CD set, Fillmore West 1969, which showcases the GRATEFUL DEAD's historic performances at the famed venue from February 27th to March 2nd in 1969. The package will feature performances of "Dark Star," "Death Don't Have No Mercy" and "The Eleven," along with a fifty-five-minute jam of "Alligator"/"Caution (Do Not Step on Tracks)" . . . MICHAEL JACKSON returned several antiques to settle a lawsuit with the Mayfair Gallery on Monday. The pop star was accused of not paying part of a nearly $380,000 bill for items purchased in May . . .
USHER's US Records will make its debut next month with the release of the soundtrack for In the Mix, a movie in which Usher stars as a DJ who saves a mafia princess, in theaters November 23rd. The CD, written and produced by Usher, will feature PAUL WALL, CHRISTINA MILIAN and newcomer CHRIS BROWN. Usher will also release the concert DVD Behind the Truth: Truth Tour -- Live, shot in his hometown of Atlanta, exclusively through Best Buy on November 8th . . . JOHN MAYER TRIO and PHIL LESH AND FRIENDS will team up for three holiday shows in San Francisco, taking place December 29th at the Fillmore, 30th at the Warfield Theater and 31st at the Bill Graham Civic Center. Tickets go on sale November 6th . . . Houston rapper LIL' FLIP will release I Need Mine, featuring NATE DOGG and LYFE JENNINGS, on December 6th. Rapper/DJ MANNIE FRESH joins Flip on the album's first single "What It Do" . . . In other Flip news, he appears on Houston rapper CHAMILLIONAIRE's reworking of "Turn It Up." The new single is a tribute to the Astros, who are playing in their first World Series in their forty-five-year history. Chamillionaire's revamped single will pop up on The Sound of Revenge, due November 22nd . . . The 1967 Newport Folk Film Festival documentary, Festival!, will be screened on November 15th at New York's Makor Cafe. The film features BOB DYLAN's first electric performance, which is also featured in the recent Martin Scorsese-directed Dylan documentary, No Direction Home . . . Georgia jam rockers WIDESPREAD PANIC will ring in the New Year at Atlanta's Philips Arena, playing shows on December 30th and 31st. Tickets go on sale November 26th . . .
Country legend JOHNNY CASH will be celebrated through the CBS special I Walk the Line: A Night for Johnny Cash on November 16th. Artists set to perform include U2, FOO FIGHTERS, SHERYL CROW, DWIGHT YOAKAM, NORAH JONES, ALISON KRAUSS, MARTINA McBRIDE, SHOOTER JENNINGS and BRAD PAISLEY. The show will be hosted by actor JOAQUIN PHOENIX, who stars as Cash in the biopic I Walk the Line, set to open two days later . . . CARLOS SANTANA and RealNetworks will celebrate the release of the guitar legend's thirty-eighth album, All That I Am, with a special concert Web cast, dubbed Rhapsody Presents: Santana "All That I Am" Live from New York, on November 1st, the day the CD hits stores. Tracks from the live concert will be available for download on Rhapsody, with proceeds benefiting Santana's Milagro Foundation, which serves disadvantaged youth through educational programs and health services, and performances from the show will be available through RollingStone.com in coming weeks . . . ELTON JOHN will release an expanded, double-disc edition of 2004's Peachtree Road on November 22nd. The set features three tracks John penned for the British play Billy Elliot -- "The Letter," "Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher" and "Electricity" -- and a DVD featuring nine live performances of Peachtree tracks recorded last November at Atlanta's the Tabernacle . . . BRITNEY SPEARS and husband KEVIN FEDERLINE are threatening to take legal action after stolen pictures of her newborn son appeared on the Internet. Spears claims the photos were taken in a private session . . .